Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia

The Rohingya fled to many countries in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. One of the Southeast Asian countries the Rohingya went to was Malaysia. In September 2017, Zulkifli Abu Bakar, the director-general of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, stated that the Rohingya would accepted into Malaysia and would gain temporary By the end of April 2019, 170,460 refugees registered with the UNHCR in Malaysia. About 147,590 are from Myanmar; however many ethnicities entered Malaysia too. For example, many Pakistanis and Syrians sought refuge in this country.

However, many refugees in Malaysia are still very limited in their opportunities as they have no legal rights and they don’t have any access to many places of work and free education. Additionally, any refugees who are living in this country are illegal, since obtaining refugee status is a lengthy process. After all, in 2015, the Malaysian Deputy Home Minister stated that illegal refugees wouldn’t be allowed in Malaysia. Despite this, Malaysia is still working on improving the living conditions for refugees by focusing on healthcare and increasing the budget for education in order to teach students higher than elementary school standards.

Sources: https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance-in-malaysia.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/24/asia/malaysia-rohingya-refugee-school-intl/index.html

Rohingya Seeking Refuge

Throughout this blog, I posted about the history of persecution the Rohingya faced. However, the places where the Rohingya are seeking refuge in is also important. Bangladesh has the highest amount of refugees, compared to many other countries I mentioned. They had to endure various trials in order to get to these countries, such as traveling on water, by boat, and having to handle the hunger, diseases, and death they will face along the journey. Not to mention the amount of human trafficking cases that occurred when refugees tried to enter countries such as, Thailand and Malaysia. Many traffickers killed refugees while they on sea or on shore.

Sources: https://www.mercycorps.org/articles/bangladesh/rohingya-refugee-crisis-quick-facts#violence-rohingya

https://www.fortifyrights.org/publication-20180402.html

Recognizing the Rohingya Crisis

I hope that you would to take a few minutes of your time, by watching this presentation about Rohingya refugee history. This presentation highlights their history starting since the British colonization of Myanmar to present day.

https://youtu.be/Sjbz4k97Fqw

As I have been doing this blog and updating my social media posts, I have noticed that some people are actually interested in this crisis and want others to be aware of this issue. For example, on my social media account, several people had been liking several of my posts that are focused on this crisis. In addition, my petition had been getting some signatures, in order for news stations to put more emphasis on this ongoing issue with the Rohingya.

When I created this presentation, my research mainly focused on Myanmar and Rohingya’s history through the use of scholarly sources. For example, I used Academic Search Premier, National Geographic, and various other websites in order to get information on the Rohingya’s history. After I collected all of my information, I structured my presentation by putting each event in chronological order. For this project, I used PowerPoint, made voice overs, and bullet points to share this information.

While doing this project, I learned more about Myanmar’s history during the British colonial era. I also learned more about the living conditions of Rohingya refugee camps. As more Rohingya refugees flee Myanmar, get terrorized, or killed, it becomes increasingly important to raise awareness about this issue. This way, with more people educated about the Rohingya and willing to help this group, a better life for these refugees will happen.

Updates on Petition and Social Media

Salutations! So far petition, I have 8 people who signed. I am hoping that more people will eventually sign my petition. Remember, this petition is focused on getting more news stations to pay more attention to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. In order to create change, to create a better life for refugees, more people have to learn more about this crisis.

Petition: https://www.change.org/p/nbc-raising-awareness-for-rohingya-refugees

Also, on my instagram account, Rohingya_Refugee_Awareness, I was to get several people to like many of the posts I made that were based on posts I previously made on my blog. I also gained a follower, Burma Taskforce, a non-profit organization focused on improving the lives of Rohingya refugees.

Reblog: Teachers multitask in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps for Rohingya refugees

In this article, it highlights the importance of educating refugee children while they are in refugee camps. After all, these kids had seen traumatic experiences when they were in Myanmar. Can you even imagine what it must’ve been like for these kids to have seen their family, friends, neighbors, persecuted or terrorized all because they are Rohingya? More importantly, the fact that these kids who are in refugee camps don’t get the ability to live a normal life, since these camps often are lacking in resources. By setting up places in refugee camps dedicated towards education, children in these camps would have a chance to live a normal life by going to school, playing games, and having people listen to their problems. While the article is right, these kids and their teachers do have to face problems with stress, considering the environment they are in, it is vital that refugee children get the chance to go to school to get a sense of normalcy in their lives.

World Education Blog

This content comes from our newly released interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report.

Anowar is a Rohingya refugee who has been living in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh for over a year. He is a learning instructor in the Burmese language. ‘I’m happy. We Rohingya need education. If we don’t get it, we’ll suffer a lot.

At the beginning, it was a bit difficult because children were scared by the things that had happened in Myanmar. They saw lots of people being slaughtered when they were fleeing, so they were depressed. We helped them come to school for education and helped cure them of the depression.’

Jui is a host community teacher in camp #2, supported by UNICEF. ‘I noticed that the children are very excited about getting such love and caring. We go to them and ask if they have any problems, and after listening, we…

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Presentation Update

Hello viewers! I just completed my powerpoint presentation about Rohingya refugee history. Next week, I am planning to post this presentation on my site for you guys to see. As far as I know, not a lot people actually know what this crisis is or why it is so important to raise awareness about it. I hope this presentation will be able to inform people about Rohingya refugee history and how their past discrimination greatly influences how these people live today. After all, it is not just a minority group getting persecuted, people are getting persecuted.

Multimedia Presentation

Hi! This might be the last post I’ll make centered around this presentation. Right now, I created a majority of the slides that I will be using for this project, along with customizing the animations and transitions used in these slides. I just need to finish up my remaining slides and record my audio, so I can officially finish this project. I hope that through this presentation people can learn about what happened to Rohingya and what role Myanmar’s government and history had in shaping the persecution this ethnic group faces. If you also have any ideas on some new topics I can put for my presentation or about the Rohingya, please write them down in the comments below.

Presentation Update

Hey! Remember my last blog post about the PowerPoint presentation I’m making about Rohingya refugee history? I have found several sources that I’m planning to use for my project. I also finished creating the outline and the script. Now, I’m starting to create my project, and I believe it will very informative on how the Rohingya had gotten persecuted during multiple time periods. If you also want to look at some the sources I used for this project, they are down below.

Links:

http://web.a.ebscohost.com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=0997c1d8-867a-41a7-804d-b8f32557daf6%40sdc-v-sessmgr03&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=135567374

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/rohingya-crisis

https://theconversation.com/amp/the-history-of-the-persecution-of-myanmars-rohingya-84040

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2017/09/rohingya-refugee-crisis-myanmar-burma-spd

Blog Viewership

Hello there! Recently, I have been getting more visitors for this site. When I first started out in February, I had a total of five visitors. In March, my website started increasing in viewership, since I got 9 visitors in total during that time. Now that April started and I got 3 visitors in total so far, I will try to share this blog to more people on my social media account in order to have more people visit. After all, one of the main reasons why I created this blog is to raise awareness on the Rohingya crisis. So if the chance, please share this blog to more people.

Multimedia Presentation about Rohingya

Hi there! I am planning to create a keynote presentation about the Rohingya and their history of discrimination in Myanmar. So far I researched many details about how this crisis originated due to the increase of British colonization, along with how the UN is reacting to this situation. If you have any more facts or ideas that I should also use in my presentation, please write them down in the comments below.